Road Trip
First road trip starts with a series this weekend in Atlanta. In another scheduling quirk, the Phillies face the Braves nine times in their first 39 games, including six in Atlanta (May 13-14-15 again). The Phillies don’t return to Atlanta until the last three games of the season in September.

Phillies hitters lead the league with a .353 average and .407 on-base percentage. Atlanta has the lowest team ERA, 2.75. So, a real test for Phillies hitters fresh from back-to-back 16-hit games.

Minor League Openers
RHP Vance Worley fanned nine in six shutout innings as Lehigh Valley opened with a 7-2 win over state rival Scranton Wilkes-Barre last night. RHP Michael Stutes fanned three of the four hitters he faced . . . Playing in 40 degrees, Reading lost its opener in Portland, ME, 4-3 . . . Playing in 82 degrees, Clearwater unleashed a 15-hit attack in winning easily, 10-1, at Dunedin. Joe Savery, making a career change from a pitcher to a hitter, was 4-4 with a walk as the DH. RHP Jarred Cosart tossed six scoreless innings to pick up the win . . . Lakewood began defense of its SAL championship with a 2-0 win over visiting Kannapolis . 1B Jim Murphy homered in his first at-bat. Win went to LHP Mario Hollands.

Top 10
MiLB.com listed the top 10 prospects in the Florida State League and Clearwater has four: #1 RHP Brody Colvin, #2 Cosart; #8, RHP Trevor May and #10, LF Jonathan Singleton.

National TV
Phillies are listed as a FOX telecast on Saturday but that game will take the back seat to the Yankees and Red Sox national telecast. So, the Phillies won’t really won’t be seen too much on a national basis . . . Sunday’s game is on TBS in addition to MyPhil in Philly . . . MLB.com has complete audio and TV coverage of every game every day.

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